Smugglerius: Art and Anatomy
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Edinburgh Research Explorer Smugglerius Art and Anatomy Citation for published version: Smith, J 2012, Smugglerius Art and Anatomy. in Artefacts conference. Artefacts, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 7/10/12. <http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/Meetings/MeetingsCurrentF.html> Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Peer reviewed version Published In: Artefacts conference Publisher Rights Statement: © Smith, J. (2012). Smugglerius Art and Anatomy. In Artefacts conference. Artefacts. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 10. Oct. 2021 Smugglerius Art and Anatomy Detail of cast prior to restoration – damage to neck. Detail of muscle fibres clearly visible. Edinburgh College of Art Smugglerius cast by William Pink 1854 The Royal Academy of Art Smugglerius cast by William Pink 1834 The eca Smugglerius ‘Published by W Pink Moulder 1854’ William Hunter 1718-1783 Agostino Carlini 1713 - 1790 “…I learned a good deal by my ears; but almost nothing by my eyes; and therefore, hardly anything to the purpose. The defect was, that the professor was obliged to demonstrate all the parts of the body, except the bones, nerves and vessels, upon one dead body. There was a foetus for the nerves and blood-vessels; and the operations of surgery were explained, to very little purpose indeed, upon a dog”. Moore, Wendy 2005. The knife man. London: Bantam. The Reward of Cruelty Plate 4 of the Four Stages of Cruelty: engraving by William Hogarth 1750 - 51 On the acquisition of a body for dissection… “This society were acquainted with it and they were desired to come and chuse the best subject for such purpose. When they had fixed upon one he was immediately sent to their apartments. As all this was done in a few hours after death, and as they had not become stif Dr Hunter conceived he might be first put into an attitude and alow’d to stiffen in it which was done, and when he became stif we all set to work, and by next morning we had the external muscles well exposed ready for making a mold from him… “ (John Hunter memoir about The St Martins Lane Academy and Incorporated Society of Artists, founded by William Hogarth) Brock, C. Helen, ed. 1983. William Hunter 1718-1783: a memoir by Samuel Foart Simmons and John Hunter. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press. ‘Hunter Lecturing at the Royal Academy’ oil painting by Johann Zoffany c1772 in the collection of the Royal College of Physicians of London Smugglerius photograph by Caroline Douglas “I have seen two men hanged, and one with his breast cut open at Surgeon’s Hall. The other, being a fine subject, they took him to the Royal Academy and covered him with plaster of Paris, after they had put him in the position of the Dying Gladiator.” John Deare (1759 – 1798) Letter to his father dated 1st May 1776 Smith, John Thomas 1828 Nollekens and his times. London: H. Colburn. The Dying Gaul (eca cast collection) The Analysis of Beauty, Plate 1 ‘The Sculptor’s Yard’ by William Hogarth 1753 Cleomene’s Roman Orator with studies by John A Henderson Tarbet 1887 Produced in the Trustees Academy, Edinburgh Courtesy of the Royal Scottish Academy Image of the cast room, Trustees Academy (eca archive) The Academicians of the Royal Academy by Johann Zoffany, 1771-72 The Royal Collection 2012 copyright Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Detail of Smugglerius’s head during restoration work Image from ‘Smugglerius Unveiled’ at the Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh 2010 Image from ‘Smugglerius Unveiled’ at the Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh 2010 Image from ‘Smugglerius Unveiled’ at the Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh 2010 .